BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Biased Writer Voice, and Anchoring Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 21.9% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 105 faulty-reasoning hits from 114 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 17.5% and a BS Rank of 4% (21,102 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.40% of the article peer group.
Minnesota is ranked No. 5 in America's Top States for Business for 2026.
CNBC’s annual study once again puts all 50 states to the test, measuring them on 138 metrics, the most ever, across ten categories of competitiveness.
Economic Profile
Governor: Tim Walz, Democrat
Population: 5,830,405
GDP growth (Q1 2026): 0.30%
Unemployment rate (May 2026): 4.40%
Top corporate tax rate: 9.80%
Top individual income tax rate: 9.85%
Gasoline tax: 51.10 cents/gallon
Bond rating (Moody's/S&P): Aaa, Stable/AAA, Stable
Economic profile sources: U.S.
Census Bureau, U.S.
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federation of Tax Administrators, American Petroleum Institute (including 18.40 cent/gallon federal tax), Moody's Investor Service, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Speakers
5speakers53%attributed speech54writer words
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Selected voice
100%flagged-word coverageCNBC
25 attributed words42% of attributed speech31% writer coverage
Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.
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Analysis
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